There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. – Bruce Springsteen
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, theres innocence contained in you but theres also innocence in the process of being lost. – Bruce Springsteen
I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. – Bruce Springsteen
But then I go through long periods where I dont listen to things, usually when Im working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find. – Bruce Springsteen
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized womens rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do. – Ingrid Newkirk